The only thing Austin Dillon messed up was his victory slide into the infield grass.
Dillon won his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race of the season on Friday night, taking the Lucas Deep Clean 200 at Nashville Superspeedway by 3.981 seconds over points leader Johnny Sauter.
Timothy Peters had the dominant truck for most of the race with 67 laps led, but during a round of pit stops under caution in the late going, Peters slipped back to third after taking four new tires.
Dillon took just two tires and came out of the pits first, followed by Sauter, who put on four. After the restart, Sauter quickly moved around Dillon and took over the lead just before the third and final caution came when Max Papis’ engine expired in turn two. His truck then erupted into flames but managed to escape unharmed.
Dillon made his winning pass on Sauter shortly after the third and final restart of the race.
Dillon became the fourth driver in a row to start on the pole and win a truck race at Nashville.
With the win, Dillon moved to within 18 points of Sauter. MiamiHerald.com
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 2 13 Johnny Sauter Chevrolet 3 17 Timothy Peters Toyota 4 8 Nelson Piquet Jr. * Chevrolet 5 29 Parker Kligerman * Dodge 6 5 Todd Bodine Toyota 7 31 James Buescher Chevrolet 8 81 David Starr Toyota 9 2 Elliott Sadler Chevrolet 10 22 Joey Coulter * Chevrolet 11 88 Matt Crafton Chevrolet 12 23 Jason White Chevrolet 13 62 Brendan Gaughan Toyota 14 7 Miguel Paludo * Toyota 15 6 Justin Lofton Toyota 16 4 Ricky Carmichael Chevrolet 17 33 Ron Hornaday Chevrolet 18 32 Blake Feese Chevrolet 19 60 Cole Whitt * Chevrolet 20 178 B.J. McLeod Chevrolet 21 66 Justin Marks Chevrolet 22 18 Josh Richards Toyota 23 10 Jennifer Jo Cobb Ford 24 39 Ryan Sieg Chevrolet 25 57 Norm Benning Chevrolet 26 20 Johanna Long * Toyota 27 9 Max Papis Toyota 28 93 Shane Sieg Chevrolet 29 165 Brent Raymer Chevrolet 30 73 Clay Greenfield Chevrolet 31 189 Chris Lafferty Dodge 32 7 Johnny Chapman Chevrolet 33 175 Mike Harmon Chevrolet 34 138 Mike Garvey Chevrolet
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